Some of the houses utilize moves to flaunt the inhabitants’ layout spirit. But not everyone easily thinks beyond the box or may go big in regards to design. If you are risk averse and have a hard time with experimentation, then try these tweaks and decor developments to infuse your home with personality and quirk allure.
Mary Prince Photography
Mary Prince Photography
The Odd Collection
Designer Jenn Clapp spends weekend afternoons arranging and rearranging an range of collections, including rocks, animal bones, taxidermy and antiques from her childhood home. Her house office (here and in the preceding photograph) gives everyone a taste of her traditional home’s eclectic spirit and places her very own wacky personality on screen.
“I can not tell you how pleased I’m making intriguing compositions. It is so much fun to observe a skull on top of my grandmother’s sewing tin,” she states.
Amy Clark Studios
The Surprise Element
This farmhouse’s front porch tips at what is inside using three pastel chandeliers, bringing the eye as it ups the property’s curb appeal and quirk element.
A bright yellow kitchen and chambers filled with vintage treasures and thrift store finds await inside since the homeowners extend the quirky spirit of the porch throughout their residence.
Think Contemporary
Interior designer Joanne Kelly upcycled a tallboy in this modern house in Dublin, Ireland, by stripping down it refinishing it and adding art into the drawers.
“The custom made piece adds this element of shock and makes turning that corner that much more fun,” she states.
Wind and Willow Home
Typography
Letters and numbers hung on a wall are not anything new, but using typography to deliver a message in the house still feels unconventional and fresh.
To add attention to her front entrance, designer and homeowner Araya Jensen stenciled a welcome message directly on the cement.
CapeRace Cultural Adventures
Here, a cautionary note on jagged floor warns guests and adds to the coastal cabin’s creative personality.
Louise Lakier
Louise Lakier
Preloved Stuff
Salvaged, upcycled and preloved decor and furnishings exude an inherently quirky spirit. In many ways, Yvette Endrijautzki and Jethaniel Peterka’s Nautilus Studio (here and in the preceding photograph) is a study in quirk allure.
“The previous times rule within our property. Old-world curiosities with an Oriental flair, and a mad scientist’s lab with a puff of gypsy dust make our decorating doctrine,” states Endrijautzki, who ardently supports making a house and a lifetime that paint a portrait of yourself.
Gabriel Builders Inc..
Perform
I am a big fan of coordinating kids’ toys, but hiding each and every truck, sock monkey and Thomas the Train piece robs your house of the chance to observe the silly and amusing.
What I love most about this family room is how it celebrates all things children with all the climbing wall, slide, wall art, color and toys.
Dan Nelson, Designs Northwest Architects
Likewise, this contemporary house does away with stairs as a transition between flooring and embraces the dad’s childhood dream of having a fire pole in the home.
Rikki Snyder
Rikki Snyder
Color Explosions
I am not talking about a pop of color. A house that explodes with colour appears daring and infuses the sensations with excitement, such as Skittles-induced thrills. Case in point: This classic house (here and in the preceding photograph) doesn’t only have splashes of chartreuse throughout. The homeowners painted an entire wall with the colour and blanketed the rest of the home with bright citrine, cobalt blue, scarlet and tangerine.
Beccy Smart Photography
Whimsy in Midair
There’s so much material on our floors, walls and tabletops, but seldom do we suspend anything in midair. Illustrator Tracey English hung this marionette from her childhood in the brink of her row home’s dining area, causing anyone who passes by to appear and smile.
Danenberg Design
A silver man parachuting from above ups the interest for the home’s dining table. It makes me want an invitation to the next dinner party here.
Neuhaus Design Architecture, P.C.
Unexpected Pairings
a sizable living area–flipped–bathing suite has a modern freestanding bathtub paired with traditional architecture, midcentury modern furniture and a luxurious vintage Baccarat lighting fixture.
Integrated
Architect Drew Stuart of Incorporated and his group thought way outside the box by pairing a Josef Hoffman cloth with this kitchen cooker.
“We encased the cloth in glass and utilized it as a backsplash,” says Stuart. “We had never done it before. It just makes the kitchen in this already magnificent original house that even more memorable.”
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